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Food Crisis Hits Ethiopia
For more news, head to www.wsj.com/video. Ethiopia is facing a food shortage compounded by low rainfall and rising demand for food around the world. That's forcing relief agencies to make tough choices about who gets fed. WSJ's Roger Thurow reports.
Tags: "Wall, Africa, Ethiopia, Hunger, Journal", Street, WSJ
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Haiti Food Crisis
June 2008
Haiti is facing a major food crisis as riots break out in the capital Port-au-Prince. Five people have died, the Prime Minister was forced to resign and authorities fear the worst is yet to come!
All produce, even eggs, are imported here, leaving Haiti at the hands of the global market. Although blessed with fertile land, farmers have no machinery and are forced to use their hands. A farmer says "we cannot compete with other farmers who have the technology to back them". People are even eating mud cookies to relieve hunger. The Haitian government have turned to International crisis funds for immediate food relief but what will happen in the long run?
Tags: Antilles, cookies, Food, Haiti, hunger, Journeyman, misery, mud, Pictures, Program, riots, The, UN, World
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Food Crisis - Egypt
May 2008
The rocketing price of food is causing riots around the world as people struggle to feed their families.
Tags: Crisis, economy, Food, Grain, Journeyman, Pictures, Prices, world
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Looming Worldwide Food Crisis
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February 25, 2008 BBC World
Tags: crisis, food, hunger, hungry, oil, poor, war
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Rethinking food crisis solutions 15 Apr 08
In the midst of a commodity prices boom, high volatility in the oil marker, and record high food prices, the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) sets a new agenda for global food production. Al Jazeera's Tanya Page says a new report will suggest that modern agriculture will have to change radically if the world is to avoid social breakdown and environmental collapse.
Tags: al, crisis, english, food, IAASTD, jazeera, page, tanya
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Food crisis in Gaza
http://www.euronews.net Food crisis in Gaza as Israel keeps Gaza crossings closed
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The casualties of Egypt's food crisis - 11 April 08
At least seven people have been killed in Egypt in riots partly prompted by the high price of bread.
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros travelled to Cairo to meet the wife of one of the victims.
Tags: Al, Egypt, English, food, Jazeera, prices, rising, Sherine, Tadros
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World Food Crisis
Is a change of diet key to solving global warming & food crisis.
Some facts
While 100 million tons of grain are being diverted to make fuel this year, over seven times as much (760 million tons) will be used to feed animals. The world's passion for meat is a much bigger cause of global hunger than its passion for the car.
To maximise food production it is best to be vegan. According to Simon Fairlie, in his magazine The Land, it would take just 3 million hectares of arable land to meet Britain's food needs, half the current total, if the population were vegan.
* To produce 1 lb of meat, an average of 40 lbs of vegetation is used.
* 12 lbs of wheat produce 12 loaves of bread and only 1hamburger.
* It takes 3.25 acres of land to produce food for a meat eater on a continuing basis, while...
Tags: compassion, peace, vegan, vegetarian
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Inside Story - Global food crisis - 29 Apr 08 - Part 1
Twenty-seven key UN agencies have been meeting in the Swiss capital Bern to hammer out a solution to the growing global food crisis. The meeting is expected to produce a plan of emergency and long-term measures to combat the crisis. Inside Story asks how workable such a plan will be and what obstacles it might face.
Tags: aljazeera, ban, crisis, food, global, inside, ki, moon, nations, prices, staple, story, united, world
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World food crisis
At least 30 Nobel Prize winners, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, will meet in the ancient city of Petra on June 17-19 to discuss global problems. One of the main topics at their meeting is food security. High food prices have increased hunger and poverty and produced rioting in some countries. What is the cause of this crisis and what should be done to tackle it?
Tags: Al, Gurnov, interview, Spotlight
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Vandana Shiva on global food crisis
On Al Jazeera Vandana Shiva accuses Worldbank and IMF of being the architects of the crisis and gives some advice how to cope.
To read more:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D1347B14-5364-45C5-8C46-950C6541801D.htm
Tags: AlJazeera, Ecofarming, Food, IMF, Shiva, Vandana
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The Food Crisis
Hunger Turns to Anger. A Priority of the United Nations?
The United Nations Studies Program presents a panel discussion with Jeffrey Sachs, John Holmes, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Ajaykumar Manubhai Vashee on the food crisis; moderated by Elisabeth Lindenmayer
(Oct 1, 2008 at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA))
Tags: development, food, global, hunger, poverty, sipa, uchannel, un
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East Africa food crisis
Oxfam travelled to the Somali region of Ethiopia to see how the food crisis is affecting the lives of millions of people.
Tags: eastafrica, ethiopia, foodcrisis, foodprices, kenya, oxfam, somalia
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Biofuels scandal + food prices. Biofuel crisis, biofuel oil, biofuel production, cars, algae, systems and basics introduction to facts about biofuels. Conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon
http://www.globalchange.com Why biofuel industry is dead -- biofuel by converting food into oil is stupid and immoral. Biodiesel, biomass, biowaste and sugar to fuel conversion into biofuels. Foor price rises. World bank report on biofuels and food prices. Ethanol and gasoline or petrol mix, European Union EU policy changes on biofuel. Biofuels policy reversal. Anti-biofuel campaigns. Biofuel blamed for food riots, hunger, food shortages, rising food prices, wheat prices, food hoarding and stockpiles. Biofuel production: speculation in food futures. Biofuel links oil price to food price. Do biofuel quotas cause starvation, Africa Asia, India, China? Competition from biofuel manufafturers for food -- poor people cannot eat, food prices rise, biofuel means burning wheat in car...
Tags: aviation, biodiesel, biofuels, biomass, biowaste, cars, energy, ethanol, food, fuel, production, saving, soya, Space, sugar, vehicles, wheat
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Inside Story - Global food crisis - 03 Jun 08 - Part 1
Will a UN-backed summit in Rome help curb growing food prices and shortages?
Tags: al, crisis, food, Global, hunger, Inside, jazeera, nations, Story, un, united
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Mizoram facing food crisis due to rats
Rural Mizoram in the grip of a famine. And the reason is an explosion in the rat population following bamboo flowering that takes place once every 50 years.At least 10,000 families are struggling to get one meal a day. The worst hit is Lawngtlai where farmers don't know what to do.
Tags: crisis, famine, food, India, Mizoram, NDTV, population, rat
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From Feast to Famine: Facts Behind Food Crisis
This Bloomberg report probes the causes, costs, and economic implications of the global food crisis. One of the special interviews is with Dr. Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) http://www.irri.org
Tags: Bloomberg, Crisis, Famine, Feast, Food, IRRI, Rice, to
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Inside Story - What is behind the food crisis -15 May 08 -P2
Is increased consumption really driving the prices up so dramatically?
Tags: al, consumption, crisis, food, high, Inside, jazeera, prices, Story
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Riz Khan - Global food crisis and unrest? - 14April08 - Pt 1
We take a look at the violence breaking out over the rise of global food prices.
Tags: al, aljazeera, crisis, egypt, food, foods, Global, haiti, jazeera, Khan, Riz, saple, violence
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The Global Food Crisis: What You Need to Know
The World Bank warns that 33 nations of the world are at risk of social unrest due to rising food prices. From Mexico to Pakistan, food prices have doubled in the last three years and sparked riots in numerous countries. Food riots have become more common in places like Haiti, Egypt and Africa. More middle class people are showing up at Food Banks in New York City.
Governments all over the world are reacting to this crisis by restricting exports of rice, wheat and corn for the fear of its citizens going hungry.
So what are the reasons for this crisis?
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